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BREAKING: MSNBC just released a devastating montage highlighting all the times Democrats called Donald Trump and JD Vance weird. This message seems to really be penetrating. Retweet so all Americans see this.
The state of UK journalism:
Kay Burley hanging out with the right-wing PM at a right-wing newspaper's office party.
The UK is in the worst poverty crisis since 1956, and the PM responsible for it feels comfortable partying with the journos who should be holding him to account.
I found William Dalrymple’s The Last Mughal the most painful to read, as it describes the last effort of Mughal India to rid itself of British occupation, but this part about Mughal princes Mirza Mughal, Khizar Sultan and Abu bakr, who led the rebellion, is the saddest .
Pavel Fuks, an Ukrainian oligarch who made a fortune in Russia and is under Ukrainian sanctions has UK residency after being granted a special visa for the rich. He is also under criminal investigation for fraud and tax evasion in his home country.
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Boris Johnson was Foreign Secretary when in 2018, after the Salisbury poisoning, he went straight and with no security from a NATO summit to former KGB Alexander #Lebedev's villa in Italy.
Even today, the public does not know what really happened there
@C4Dispatches
If this Government’s outright onslaught on British liberties - restricting our right to protest, robbing millions of workers of their right to strike & stripping back human rights doesn’t terrify you it damn well should!
If you watch just one thing today please make it this!
Suella Braverman’s parents emigrated (those horrible economic migrants not from a war zone she hates).
She went to Cambridge for free and didn’t collect £27k debt like everyone else. Scrounger.
She used the Erasmus scheme to study in France. Which she has blocked.
Horrible.
This is Charles & Willa Bruce. In 1912 they bought prime beachfront land in Manhattan Beach, LA County and built a Black resort community. In 1924 the county took it and refused to pay its value. In 2021, worth $72 million, it was returned to their descendents by Senate Bill 796.
In 1912, Black Californians Charles and Willa Bruce bought a small slice of Manhattan Beach real estate for around $1,200. They built a resort for fellow Black families in the area who found themselves unwelcome at Whites-only beaches, even renting out bathing suits and selling snacks — and they were almost immediately subjected to racist attacks. Everyone from neighbors, the police, the city council, and even the Ku Klux Klan tried to close the beach down. The city imposed 10-minute parking limits near the beach to try and discourage visitors, and finally in 1924, the Manhattan Beach city council just seized the property entirely, offering the Bruces a fraction of their asking price. Today, the stretch of beach is worth around $20 million — and Los Angeles County voted to finally return it to the Bruces' descendants in 2021.